River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-08-04

600 to $3.50, 200, with a total insurance Of
about Slg2,OOO. The firemen worked well
and had u streams of water playing upon
the burning premises at the same time and
in an hour and half had it under control
and by midnight it was entirely subdued.
Several Republican county conven-
lions were held in Iowa Saturday. The Re
publicans of Wayne county instructed for
Senator Robinson for Supreme judge, but
the delegation is divided as to state Super
intendent. The senatorial delegation is sol
id for Col. Duncan for state senator. The
Greene county Republicans did not instruct.
Speaker Head was unanimously renomina-
ted for representative. The Dickson county
endorsed A. Il. Funk for state
senator, and elected delegates to the state
convention favorable TO Robinson for su-
preme judge. In Palo Alto county the
Republican convention was well attended,
and the delegates were instructed to sup
port none but farmers for the Legislature
The ship A. G. Ropes sailed for
Yohahama ON July % with $1,000 packages
of tea consigned to the Northern Pacific at
Tacoma. This is the largest single cargo
which ever left Yokohama and makes
about 4,250,000 pounds of tea. This
quantity is four-fifths as much as all the tea
handled by the Canadian Pacific last year,
and more than came over the Northern
Pacific the whole of last season. The
cargo will make about l75 car loads, and is
shipped TO st. Paul, Chicago, New York
and Canadian cities, a very large quantity
being for p. II. Kelly Mercantile company
of st. Paul, Mimi.
The Chicago Farmers Review this
week, says of the crops: winter wheat,
Illinois, average, 1854 bushels; Tennessee
II - hKagl kla clRaIu II.
counties, IA bushels; Wisconsin counties
18 bushels; spring wheat, II Iowa counties
10 % bushels, 5 Minnesota counties, Is
bushels; II Dakota counties - l-5 bushels;
corn, - Illinois Is per cent; Wisconsin 80
per cent; Iowa, IA counties los per cent
Minnesota counties, ~ per cent: Dakota,
10 counties, 10 per cent; oats, Wisconsin
counties 81 bushels; Ii Iowa counties 80
bushels; q Minnesota counties, 3556 bushels;
10 Dakota counties, 32 bushels.
A son of eX-Attorney General
Wayne McVeagh is TO marry daughter of
Gen. Hammond, who now lives in Mime
sofa, and who was in the volunteer army
in the war. The young mans mother is Il
daughter of ex-senator Simon Cameron Of
Pennsylvania, and sister of Senator Don
Cameron. The young lady's mother is the
daughter of the late Nathaniel Wolf of
Louisville, Ky, one of the most active men
AS a HleulDeI OF the sIdle legislature IN 1901
i'll keeping the state in the Union.
Dubuque, Ia, despatch Goth: A
party of several persons from Hazel Green,
Wis, arrived to-day to camp out few
weeks on the banks of the Mississippi river
a few miles south of Galena, at n point
known as the junction. This afternoon
Walter Hobbie, Clint Thomas and John
II. Thomas, members of the party, went in
bathing in a dangerous hole known as the
whirlpool, and were drowned. The bodies
were not recovered up to a late hour.
Col. Tyner, adjutant general of
Dakota, has located the encampment of the
Dakota National Guard in Huron, to be held
from the LIST to the Sth of September
Cooked ratiens will be issued, and tar
get range established with prizes to the best
marksmen. Before the encampment all the
troops will be armed with the best Spring
field rifle, and the territory will also have
two new brass field pieces, both of which
will be used
CHICAGO, July 28.-Information re-
ceived here today leaves no doubt that
freight rates in the through business
between Chicago and St Paul will be
slashed by the new line of the Minnesota
a. Northern, which will be open Monday.
The reductions will average from 30 or 40
per cent. all round The officials of the
old lines say they will meet any cut made.
John Stuart, of Fourmile township,
Iowa, brought home some corn meal. AS it
was a little late his wife concluded she
wouldn't bake bread for supper and told
him to give the chickens feed out of il.
He did so and the following morning he
gathered up forty-three dead chickens. 1t
is not known what was in the meal, but the
matter will be looked into.
The co mmittee appointed by the G
A. r. of Wisconsin to select site for the
new home, to be known as the Wisconsin
Veterans home have selected the one Of
fered by the people of Waupaca. The
property chosen is at the chain of lakes
three miles west of Waupaca, and is known
as Greenwood Park. Possession will be
given Sept. |.
Capt. Gilbert Knapp, died at Racine
July 81. He was the first white man TO
make settlement in that part of Wisconsin,
and was the founder of the Belle City. He
was prominent and active in territorial
days, hut declined political honors after
statehood came. He was engaged in the
U. .. Naval survey service for fifty years.
ST. PETER, July 26-The first new
wheat was marketed yesterday. 1t graded
No. northern, good quality. 1t came
from the sand prairie. The Weld was
about ia bushels to the acre. The weather
is very dry and corn is suffering from want
of rain. Potatoes will also be a light
crop.
A street car driver was shot dead at
II 80 p. m, Tuesday at the Lake street
turntable, Minneapolis, as he was about to
turn in his car for the night. His cash box,
supposed to contain 5000 was stolen. The
murdered man was struck by two al OTIS and
was found dead on the platform of his car.
At Milwaukee, Wis, Monday even
ing William Schmidt, better known as ssBil-
ly Smith, " in former years a travelling sales
man for Marshall, Field a. Co., committed
suicide by shooting himself in the head. For
the last two years he has been in the insan
asylum. Since his release he lived from the
earnings of his mother, who keeps a mil
linery store.
III. A. Je welt and Seymour HOLSTER
of Oshkosh, Wis, have contracted for a
tract of land near Sault Ste. Marie contain
ing 15,0OO,OO feet of pine, for which they will
pay Sl50,0O0 The money is to be furnished
by Senator Sawyer. The pine is to be
sawed and shipped to Canadian points
At Clinton Iowa, Wallace Phillips,
the youth who was shot in the head at Sells
Bros, circus, died Monday. Mrs. Lamber
ton, another victim, is getting better, George
Harrington, the third person shot, is still in
a critical condition.
At Duluth, Monday evening, Mile.
Rhea, at the close of the performance ten
dered a reception to the Duluth Press club,
and presented that organization with fine
solid silver water pitcher appropriately en-
graved.
FOrman station, on the Minneapolis
q Pacific, twenty three miles west of Led
gerwood, has been opened for business.
The merchandise rates to Forman, first
class, is 81 cents from st, Paul or Mime
apolis.
A man said to be an English gypsy
who keeps a small grocery at st. Paul, shot
a policeman in the mouth, during an alter
cation at Sunday beer garden pic mic.
The injury was not dangerous,
The railroad bridge ut Mendoza,
Mimi. of the Chicago, st. Paul, Minneap-
oils and Omaha line, took fire Tuesday
afternoon and was damaged so that no
trains could pass for two days.
The elevator at Auburn, Oak, was
struck by lightning on the Goth and burned
with 5000 bushels of wheat Loss on
elevator 5000, insurance $1,000; insurance
on wheat 200.
ST. CLOUD, Mimi, July 26-At a
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